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Mission News
The TIMED spacecraft is operating nominally and is currently collecting data on one of the last frontiers in Earth's atmosphere.Visit the instrument Web sites to learn more about their explorations of Earth's atmosphere.
For a central catalog of TIMED data products, visit the Mission Data Center.
TIMED Celebrates 5-Year Launch Anniversary
Several AGU Sessions Showcase Mission Accomplishments
Throughout its five years in operation, TIMED has served as a catalyst for a greater understanding of our thermosphere and ionosphere. In coordination with a network of space- and ground-based systems, TIMED has provided the first view of the mesosphere, ionosphere and thermosphere as a coupled system throughout a range of solar activity levels.
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APL-Led TIMED Mission Extended for Second Time
The TIMED community will have the opportunity to further its studies of Earth’s atmosphere when the mission begins an extended campaign in October 2006 with operations and data analysis continuing through 2010.
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Two APL-built Instruments Observe Recent Total Solar Eclipse
APL space scientists got a first-hand look at what happens to Earth’s atmosphere when the sun was abruptly “turned off” during the March 29, 2006, total solar eclipse.
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Atmospheric Study Shows Similarities in Sun’s Effects on Earth and Mars
An APL TIMED scientist takes a closer look at how the sun's energy, which varies during its rotation, affects the atmosphere of Earth and Mars.
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APL-led TIMED Team Receives NASA Award
During the 31st annual NASA Headquarters Honor Awards Ceremony on Nov. 3, 2004, the TIMED project was presented with the Civil Service/Contractor Team Award for outstanding performance in support of NASA Headquarters' mission.
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TIMED Sees Unusual Light Show
Mission Now in Third Year of Operations
Auroral lights are rarely seen in maryland, but northern skies as far south as Alabama glowed brightly with red and green hues Nov. 408, 2004, when the sun shot at least five coronal mass ejections toward Earth.
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TIMED Weathers Record-setting Solar Flares
Spacecraft Healthy, Observes Earth’s Response to Strong Solar Storms
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The TIMED spacecraft weathered some of the strongest solar storms on record with all systems operating nominally. Scientists are now analyzing data TIMED collected during one of the stormiest periods of solar activity on record.
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TIMED Mission Extended for Future Studies
NASA extended the TIMED mission for another three years of operations and data analysis beginning in January 2004, followed by an additional year of data analysis in 2007 to be conducted after orbital operations are completed.
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TIMED Celebrates 1-Year Launch Anniversary
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On Dec. 7, 2002, at the American Geophysical Union Conference, TIMED scientists celebrated the mission’s 1-year launch anniversary by presenting a variety of scientific results, which included data depicting Earth’s response to this year’s major solar storms. TIMED data showcased was part of the aeronomy community’s first in-depth look at critical elements in the sun-Earth chain.
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TIMED Celebrates 1-Year Anniversary at AGU Conference Showcasing Data
On Dec. 7, 2002, NASA's TIMED (Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere, Energetics and Dynamics) mission is celebrating its one-year launch anniversary by presenting scientific results in a special session at the fall 2002 American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco, Calif., Dec. 6-10. TIMED — NASA's first Solar Terrestrial Probe — will also be featured in a multi-mission presentation, Dec. 9, focusing on the April 2002 solar storm events — the aeronomy community's first in-depth look at critical elements in the Sun-Earth chain.
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TIMED Watches April 2002 Solar Storms
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The TIMED spacecraft recently observed our atmosphere's response to a series of strong solar storms, providing the critical link between the physical processes connecting the Sun and Earth.
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TIMED Launch Successful
  
The TIMED spacecraft was launched on December 7, 2001 at 7:07 a.m. PST (10:07 EST) out of Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., aboard a Delta II launch vehicle with the Jason-1 spacecraft. The second of the two spacecraft jettisoned from the rocket, TIMED reached its orbit 2 hours and 5 minutes after launch.
The spacecraft has begun its 2-year exploration of one of the last frontiers in Earth's upper atmosphere.
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